Re: [Sheflug] Boot messages

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Thanks Richard,

Now why the hell should that screw the boot process up??? ;o{ The machine
gets so the cursor is just to the right of 'lo' and then hangs - keyboard
locked, mouse dead but cursor still flashing away on the screen. The only
way out seems to be the big reset button.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
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www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Lowe" <nospam [at] richlowe.demon.co.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: 17 August 2001 23:00
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Boot messages


> * Ian Wright (Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone give me clue as to where I can find out what the boot
messages
> > actually mean???
> >
> > I am trying to build a 2.4.7 kernel with RTAI patch but the machine
keeps
> > locking up at 'bringing up interface lo' just after it heads off into
> > runlevel 5. Try as I might, I can't find anything which tells me what
> > 'interface lo' is or where I might look for the problem. The kernel
boots OK
> > with 'linux single' and compiled without any obvious errors so I assume
the
> > glitch is within the XFree86 stuff somewhere??
>
> "interface lo" is the loopback network interface.
> 127.0.0.1
>
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